Town Plans

23x16 cm

No. CXVIII.] GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE. ^PRICE ONE PENNY.
MANCHESTER
London, Pub.^d by Edwards 12, Ave Maria Lane.
Drawn & Eng.d by J. Archer.
PLAN OF MANCHESTER.
Printer's imprint verso; R. Clay, PRINTER, 7 Bread-street-Hill, Cheapside. 

Woodblock engraving by Joshua Archer (1792?-1863) published in weekly parts in The Guide to Knowledge edited by W Pinnock...London: W.Edwards 1833-34.
The unusual printing method, whereby the engraved woodblock was inked with a roller without working the ink into the engraved cuts resulting in a white line on a black ground, was not suited to to topographical maps and plans and the method was not used again commercially.

A very good, clean example.